Английский язык: Практические пособие (Thomas Alva Edison. My Working Day. Sport in Our Republic. Our University), страница 9

5. 6 o'clock-go to a discotheque.

23. What is your daily programme for tomorrow?

24. Read and role-play the conversation:

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An Interview with a Football Player

Stcve:What time does your day start,Sam?

Sam:0h,that's an easy question.Never before 10 o'clock.

Steve:And when do you train with the team?

Sam:Five days a week.Not on Saturdays and Sundays.

Steve:And how many hours do you train every week?

Sam:About four hours a day.It's hard work.

Steve: What do you do in your free time?

Sam:Idrive my sports car.I visit my girl-friends.

Stcve:Expensive hobbies!How much do you earn?

Sam:A lot.0h,in my free time I read all my fan letters.! get hundreds of letters a

week.

Steve:And do you answer all of them?

Sam:I don't.I answer letters once a year at Christmas.

Steve:Why do people like you?

Sam:That's a difficult question.Read my fan letters.Here they are.

25-Read and translate the text using a dictionary:

Winter was their slack season.She could sleep sometimes till 8, and John till 11.They could linger over their meals a little,read,play cards,go visiting the neighbours.It was the time to relax and enjoy themselves,but instead they kept on waiting for the spring.

Sometimes they slept late.sometimes they played cards,but always uneasily. When John sat down to a meal he ate quickly .pushed his chair away agam,from habit.from sheer work-instinct.even though it was only to put more wood in the stove,or go down to the cellar to cut up beets and turnips for the cows.

Sometimes she asked herself why try to talk with a man who never talked,and when there was nothing to talk about but crops and cattle,the weather and the neighbours?Why go visiting them when still it was the same-crops and cattle,the weather and the other neighbours?Why go to the dances in the schoolhouse to sit among the older women or to waltz with the workbent,tired old farmers to a squeaky fiddle tune? Once she danced with Steve six or seven times in the evening, and

they had talked about it many months.It was easier to stay at home. John never danced or enjoyed himself.He didn't like shaving in the cold weather oftener than once or twice a week.It was easier to stay at home,to stand at the window staring out across the fields,to count the days and look forward to another spring. («The Painted Door» after Sinclair Ross)

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26.Speak on your working day. 27.Translate and leam the proverbs:

1 .A good beginning makes a good ending.

2.Well begun is half done.

3.Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

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Language Practice.Pronunciation.

1. Pronounce the following words. Pay attention to the pronunciation of the letter «c»:

71 [s]       cinema,centre,dance,face,ice,society,exercise с ->  [s],[k]   concert,bicycle,circle

^1 [k]      vacation,com,culture,hockey,country,case,canteen,computer, active,music,co)lecting

2. Pronounce the following words:

[dz]             [t|]              [}]            [л]

just             kitchen          wash         collecting gymnastic       watch           fresh         going judo             much            shall         spending knowledge       which           vacation      playing region           nature           show        cycling village           chess            recreation    boating engage          choose          national      hiking match           fishing       skating culture          motion       siding picture          share        swimming

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3. Practice pronouncing the following words with letter «a»:

M             [a:]            [ei]          [^:]         [E-5]

gallery           are            case         all      air fan              plant          engage       talk    prepare can              part           lake         ball    share factor            large          play         also    spare amateur          dance         skate        walk track             participate     recreation    watch ballet            carnival       stay         want attract            art            tape         what stamp            park          radio        small